Mental Health

Counselling Directory

The Counselling Directory website is a confidential service that encourages those in need to seek help and to connect individuals with qualified counsellors in the UK. The site contains information on the common reasons people turn to counselling, as well as articles, news, and events. All counsellors have provided qualifications and insurance cover or proof of membership with a professional body.

Phone number: 0333 325 2500
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Leeds Mind

Leeds Mind supports people with mental health problems, providing resources and service throughout the Leeds area.
Their services include: wellbeing, 1:1 work, befriending, counselling, peer support, employment support and housing.

Solace

Solace provides therapy, training and advocacy for refugees and asylum seekers in a number of ways including one-to-one counselling, group therapy, family therapy, anxiety and stress management and activities’ groups, as well as complementary therapies, such as massage and scaro-cranial massage to address physical pain and tension in the body.Links: Tel: 0113 249 1437
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Volition

Volition is a network of third sector organisations in Leeds that support people’s mental health and wellbeing. Volition has over 90 member organisations working in a wide range of settings from health and social care to housing, the arts, the environment, community development, talking therapy and carers’ support.Links: Tel: 0113 242 1321
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Positive Pathways

Positive Pathways provide support for people who need to find suitable housing or who are having difficulty managing where they live due to issues connected to their mental health.
They work with people, who alongside their mental health issues, may have difficulties associated with drug and/or alcohol use, mild learning disabilities, brain injury or who may be on the autistic spectrum.Links: Tel: 0113 2009177
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Mental Health Homeless Team (MHHT)

The Mental Health Homeless Team (MHHT) helps anyone who is homeless with mental health needs in Leeds. They can help to find and settle people into their own tenancy in the community, and arrange pathways to other services for additional support.

Links: Tel: 0113 378 2567
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Leeds Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAHMS)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, is a service for children and young people under 18 and their families and is part of the NHS. CAMHS is for when problems with mental health are stopping you getting on with daily life.Links:; CAHMS East Tel: 0113 8434468; CAHMS West Tel: 0113 843 2710;
CAHMS South Tel: 0113 843 0804
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Leeds Mental Health Directory

Leeds Mental Health Directory aims to give up to date information about what services are available in the city and how to access them. It also provides links to fact sheets and self-help information about maintaining good mental health and wellbeing.Links:

Tel: 0113 305 5800
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Leeds Directory of Bereavement Services

Leeds Bereavement Forum supports the need in society to express grief and come to terms with loss. The directory provides an up to date list of support and services available and how to access them.Links:

Tel: 0113 225 3975
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See also Leeds and York Partnerships, which is in the next section for more on mental health.